No man can be great who allows himself to get angry.
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Other Orison Swett Marden quotes:
When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.
What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us.
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
It is human nature to help a man along the way he is going; if he is going up, the world will boost him; if he is going down, the world will kick him. If a man lacks faith in himself, the world will lack faith in him also.
The disgrace is not in falling, but in not rising every time you fall.
All men who have achieved great things have been dreamers, and what they have accomplished has been just in proportion to the vividness, the energy and persistency with which they visualized their ideals.
It is the ship at the wharf, not the ship at sea, that rots fastest.
There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.
Be larger than your task.
